Daily Archives: September 16, 2009

The Messiah in Ruth Rabbah

Jacob Neusner, The Midrash: An Introduction (Northvale: Jason Aronson, 1990) 176. In the case of Ruth Rabbah, the issue is the nature of leadership, the leader from the periphery, the Messiah from Moab…All contemporary scholarship reads the Book of Ruth … Continue reading

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